reason #64 why twitter sucks
because karl rove has an account.

guilt by association.

holy SHIT, piratebay!
so... out of nowhere, they announced today that pirate bay was bought by some other company, and that they're going to close their main tracker. given that they deal with pretty much half the torrents on the planet, that's a pretty big fucking hit. from the article:

Instead they will encourage their users to use a yet to be launched third party tracker for their torrents. To decentralize even further, the torrents that will be listed on the site wont be hosted on The Pirate Bay’s servers anymore.

so okay, they're decoupling the torrents from the site. surely this is some murky legal water for them, but still. i guess everyone needs to finish their torrents before the tracker goes down, whenever it does.

edit: firefox 3.5 is out. go get it; it's wonderful.

Did something happen today?
you know, i think a bunch of stuff happened today. i'm not gonna talk about that; everyone who has a twitter or facebook account can tell you what happened.

no, i want to talk about how the internet fell apart today. every website came crashing down when people flocked to them, either to update about michael jackson being dead, or to read about michael jackson being dead. twitter, the horrible RoR piece of shit it is, started failwhaling. other sites just slowed down, but even livejournal took quite a hit. techcrunch pretty much covered it in this article, but it's interesting to see how much an event like this can affect social networking sites.

now go optimize your site, so you don't slow down when something big happens.